Certain forms of abuses in health-care settings that may cross a threshold of mistreatment that is tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2013, para. 31
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Patients in health-care settings are reliant on health-care workers who provide them services. As the previous Special Rapporteur stated: "Torture, as the most serious violation of the human right to personal integrity and dignity, presupposes a situation of powerlessness, whereby the victim is under the total control of another person." Deprivation of legal capacity, when a person's exercise of decision-making is taken away and given to others, is one such circumstance, along with deprivation of liberty in prisons or other places (A/63/175, para. 50).
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment